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Opera Australia treads brutal Boulevard to a $10m loss

A production of the musical Sunset Boulevard helped drag Opera Australia's finances to an operating deficit of $10.6 million in 2024.

AAP · May 16, 2025

Three-storey property in Walthamstow on sale for £150,000 (but it's only 6ft wide)

Former tenant used to live on narrowboat and says: ‘It’s weirdly spacious in there’

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2025

What’s behind the spate of arts leadership departures in Australia? Perhaps a mismatch of values

The past few months has seen the sudden departure of leadership from some of the country’s most prestigious artistic companies: the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Theatre, Opera Australia and the Adelaide Festival.

The Conversation · Sep 29, 2024

‘Public enemy number one’: on the hunt with Queensland’s volunteer cane toad busters

A competition to deplete the invasive, warty amphibian has attracted plenty of contestants – who take it deadly seriously

The Guardian - AU · Jan 27, 2023

Jo Davies set to become Opera Australia’s first female artistic director

British director Jo Davies has bold plans for the nation’s biggest performing arts company, which has been mired in gender inequity issues and bullying allegations in recent years.

ABC News · Dec 19, 2022

The week in classical: The Yeomen of the Guard; Alcina – music under siege

ENO stands firm amid extreme funding cuts with a Gilbert and Sullivan staging full of vim and vigour, while animal magic ripples through Richard Jones’s new Alcina

The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2022

The Yeomen of the Guard review – tonal uncertainties but G&S update has plenty to enjoy

Jo Davies’ 1950-set staging of the late G&S opera may not fully cohere but musically we’re in excellent hands and Richard McCabe’s is a moving – and sweatily desperate – Jack Point

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2022

The Yeomen of the Guard - ENO at the Coliseum review: only intermittently successful

If anything, the show could be more irreverent, more boisterous

Evening Standard · Nov 4, 2022